Welcome to the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics

ECDA is the Flagship Centre and Community of Erasmus University Rotterdam for cross-disciplinary insight on the societal impact of Data, Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Immersive Technologies.

We facilitate applied research, experimentation and active lifelong learning. We aim to positively contribute towards the grand societal challenges and use the Sustainable Development Goals as our guiding framework.

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ATTENDEES

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EXPERT PRACTICES

Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics

Welcome to Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics

Our mission

ECDA is the Flagship Centre and Community of Erasmus University Rotterdam for cross-disciplinary insight on the societal impact of Data, Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Immersive Technologies.

We facilitate applied research, experimentation and active lifelong learning. We aim to positively contribute towards the grand societal challenges and use the Sustainable Development Goals as our guiding framework.

100+

EVENTS

4000+

ATTENDEES

25+

EXPERT PRACTICES

Calling for collaboration on responsible AI in practice

Are you working on responsible AI and its real‑world implications? Submit your application and join us at the AI Hype, Hope & Humanity: Co-creating Responsible AI across Research Policy, and Practice

VR in Education | Interview with Yvonne van Everdingen

What happens when learning becomes an experience? In this video, Yvonne van Everdingen explains an innovative teaching project designed to make the environmental impact of AI more tangible through the use of VR.

Calling for collaboration on responsible AI in practice

Are you working on responsible AI and its real‑world implications? Submit your application and join us at the AI Hype, Hope & Humanity: Co-creating Responsible AI across Research Policy, and Practice

VR in Education
Interview with Yvonne van Everdingen

What happens when learning becomes an experience? In this video, Yvonne van Everdingen explains an innovative teaching project designed to make the environmental impact of AI more tangible through the use of VR.

Immerse Yourself

The Immersive Xperience Lab brings together EUR academics, students, support staff, and practitioners from industry and government. Here users, supported by immersive tech engineers and (gamification) experts, can experiment, visualize, and collaborate across domains. It is a space to educate/learn, research, and engage with stakeholders, through immersive technologies. VR, AR, MR, and holography are used as new vehicles to increase understanding, embrace other perspectives, and come to new types of collaborations that boost innovation, and therefore create societal impact.

Discover Your Path

Partners

Are you a corporation, government institution, or a technology venture? Partner with us and let’s create an immersive future together!

Academics

Want to enhance your research with tech? Academics in the Dutch ecosystem—let’s collaborate!

Students

Want to learn more about data? Participate in campus-changing and unique projects? Work with bright minds? Come to ECDA!

Startups

Want to learn more how we collaborate with startups? Participate in the Eramus Data Summit and unprecedented projects and events!

What Are We Doing?

AI@EUR

AI@EUR fosters a robust AI community at Erasmus University, enhancing capabilities and promoting ethical AI practices through collaboration, guidelines, and dialogue on AI legislation.

ELM

Erasmus Language Model aims to surpass ChatGPT in the education sector by providing a superior alternative that is open-source and continuously trained with a critical socio-technological perspective.

Rotterdam Social AI Lab

The Rotterdam Social AI Lab is a partnership between the Municipality of Rotterdam and Erasmus University, co-creating ethical and transparent AI with residents for public benefit.
Smart Campus

Smart Campus

The Smart Campus Project enhances campus sustainability and operational excellence through data analytics and immersive visualization, involving students and external tech partners.

Education Programmes

Education

The program trains teams in data analytics, AI, and ethics to boost education and decision-making efficiency.

XR Technology

The program helps organizations leverage XR technologies for sustainable value, focusing on people, planet, and profit.

Expert Practices

The Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics encompasses many skills within its different interdisciplinary teams, however, it is our collaboration with faculties and professors that elevates our knowledge to the next level. Within our organizations, we have a plethora of expert practices, from AI to Sustainability, we have it all.

The urgent and complex societal challenges of our time call for convergence; the crossing of boundaries between institutes and disciplines to create new perspectives and solutions. For this reason, TU Delft, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam are joining forces in the Convergence.

Convergence

The urgent and complex societal challenges of our time call for convergence; the crossing of boundaries between institutes and disciplines to create new perspectives and solutions. For this reason, TU Delft, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam are joining forces in the Convergence.

At the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, our teams often work with vast amounts of data in complex projects that affect multiple stakeholders. To do this, we utilize top-of-the-line data analytics capabilities and tools! Interested to want to know more, click the button below!

Get Involved

Join Our Team

Want to be directly involved in advancing our university? Do you want to change the world? Then join us!

Partner Up

Share knowledge with us, drive real and life-changing projects, and become an integral part of our vast ecosystem.

Collaborate

Collaborate with the Erasmus Data Collaboratory on impactful data projects tackling real-world challenges.

Upcoming events

Virtual Reality (VR) in Education: Lessons from a Large-Scale Pilot Study

CLI Lunch & Learn During this CLI Lunch & Learn, you will learn more about the interesting educational innovations and research taking place at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and beyond. […]

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23 June 2026

Learn how to use LLM in your research

Are you interested in using LLMs in your research? You might want to join this hands-on workshop by the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics (ECDA) in collaboration with SSH Breed. […]

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25 June 2026

Meet-Up: Academia and Startups on AI

Connecting Startups with EUR Academics on AI based products and AI enabled Work You are warmly invited to join a meetup organized by ECDA, SSH Breed and 42Workspace, where local […]

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01 July 2026

Welcome to the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics

ECDA is the Flagship Centre and Community of Erasmus University Rotterdam for cross-disciplinary insight on the societal impact of Data, Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Immersive Technologies.

We facilitate applied research, experimentation and active lifelong learning. We aim to positively contribute towards the grand societal challenges and use the Sustainable Development Goals as our guiding framework.

Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics

Welcome to Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics

Our mission

ECDA is the Flagship Centre and Community of Erasmus University Rotterdam for cross-disciplinary insight on the societal impact of Data, Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Immersive Technologies.

We facilitate applied research, experimentation and active lifelong learning. We aim to positively contribute towards the grand societal challenges and use the Sustainable Development Goals as our guiding framework.

Calling for collaboration on responsible AI in practice

Are you working on responsible AI and its real‑world implications? Submit your application and join us at the AI Hype, Hope & Humanity: Co-creating Responsible AI across Research Policy, and Practice

VR in Education | Interview with Yvonne van Everdingen

What happens when learning becomes an experience? In this video, Yvonne van Everdingen explains an innovative teaching project designed to make the environmental impact of AI more tangible through the use of VR.

Calling for collaboration on responsible AI in practice

Are you working on responsible AI and its real‑world implications? Submit your application and join us at the AI Hype, Hope & Humanity: Co-creating Responsible AI across Research Policy, and Practice

VR in Education Interview with Yvonne van Everdingen

What happens when learning becomes an experience? In this video, Yvonne van Everdingen explains an innovative teaching project designed to make the environmental impact of AI more tangible through the use of VR.

Immerse Yourself

Immerse Yourself

Discover Your Path

Discover Your Path

Partners

Are you a corporation, government institution, or a technology venture? Partner with us and let’s create an immersive future together!

Academics

Want to enhance your research with tech? Academics in the Dutch ecosystem—let’s collaborate!

Students

Want to learn more about data? Participate in campus-changing and unique projects? Work with bright minds? Come to ECDA!

Startups

Want to learn more how we collaborate with startups? Participate in the Eramus Data Summit and unprecedented projects and events!

What Are We Doing?

What Are We Doing?

AI@EUR

AI@EUR fosters a robust AI community at Erasmus University, enhancing capabilities and promoting ethical AI practices through collaboration, guidelines, and dialogue on AI legislation.

ELM

Erasmus Language Model aims to surpass ChatGPT in the education sector by providing a superior alternative that is open-source and continuously trained with a critical socio-technological perspective.

Rotterdam Social AI Lab

The Rotterdam Social AI Lab is a partnership between the Municipality of Rotterdam and Erasmus University, co-creating ethical and transparent AI with residents for public benefit. Smart Campus

Smart Campus

The Smart Campus Project enhances campus sustainability and operational excellence through data analytics and immersive visualization, involving students and external tech partners.

Education Programmes

Education Programmes

Education

The program trains teams in data analytics, AI, and ethics to boost education and decision-making efficiency.

XR Technology

The program helps organizations leverage XR technologies for sustainable value, focusing on people, planet, and profit.

Expert Practices

Expert Practices

Convergence

The urgent and complex societal challenges of our time call for convergence; the crossing of boundaries between institutes and disciplines to create new perspectives and solutions. For this reason, TU Delft, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam are joining forces in the Convergence.

Convergence

The urgent and complex societal challenges of our time call for convergence; the crossing of boundaries between institutes and disciplines to create new perspectives and solutions. For this reason, TU Delft, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam are joining forces in the Convergence.

Engaging Data

At the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, our teams often work with vast amounts of data in complex projects that affect multiple stakeholders. To do this, we utilize top-of-the-line data analytics capabilities and tools! Interested to want to know more, click the button below!

Engaging Data

At the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, our teams often work with vast amounts of data in complex projects that affect multiple stakeholders. To do this, we utilize top-of-the-line data analytics capabilities and tools! Interested to want to know more, click the button below!

Get Involved

Get Involved

Join Our Team

Want to be directly involved in advancing our university? Do you want to change the world? Then join us!

Partner Up

Share knowledge with us, drive real and life-changing projects, and become an integral part of our vast ecosystem.

Collaborate

Collaborate with the Erasmus Data Collaboratory on impactful data projects tackling real-world challenges.

Upcoming events

Virtual Reality (VR) in Education: Lessons from a Large-Scale Pilot Study

Learn how to use LLM in your research

Meet-Up: Academia and Startups on AI

News

News

VR in Education
Interview with Yvonne van Everdingen

The Rotterdam Social AI Lab is a partnership between the Municipality of Rotterdam and Erasmus University, co-creating ethical and transparent AI with residents for public benefit.
Smart Campus